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02-19-2021, 03:38 PM #226Registered User
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Mammoth sucks, it's over crowded, no parking, and the beer is warm..
Had a great time skiing Wed-Thurs during the mid-week holiday period. The only lift lines I hit were on 9, and those never lasted very long. Avoided crowed chairs 1 and 2 for the most part. Only went to the top once.
Great upslope wind buff on Wed on 9 and 23, and downslope on Thurs. 25 was ski on to the lift all day, nice springy snow on the east side in the morning. Cornice bowl was were it was at Wed and Thurs, proper wind buff top to bottom if you avoided the windfucked sections.
Skied June Tues afternoon, hoping for good conditions on the lower mountain, but the snow never really softened. Lots of windboard, breakable crust, but kinda soft turns in the sidecountry ptich lookers left of J1.
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02-19-2021, 04:47 PM #227
Mammoth does not suck but all the people that roll in for Friday thru Sunday sure make it a gong show. Throw in Covid chair lifts and it is a genuine cluster fuck. I have not skied a Friday at Mammoth in a few years, now I remember why not. June tomorrow for sure. O and my new MX84's railed the hard pack. Those skis are sic.
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02-19-2021, 07:06 PM #228
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02-19-2021, 08:11 PM #229
Afternoon sesh today..lower lift sh*t show, as expected, but 22, 25 were EMPTY.
Avi2 was getting refilled every lift ride.
Dave's could be damn good tmrw if winds subside..I have mastered all major sporting activities to a high degree of mediocrity.
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02-19-2021, 08:34 PM #230
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02-20-2021, 01:01 AM #231
We skied June today. Was going to go out for an hour at Mammoth early, but heard the wind and sipped my coffee. Checked out at 10:15 and drove up to June. Parked in the third row at 11 or so. Never even had to queue for a line on an lift. Rode J1, J6, J4, and mostly J7. Snow was in good shape on the groomers and on the bumps of J7. Best snow was left side of Sunset with nice wind buff until he pitch moderates. The bumps in the middles were pretty nice as well with soft troughs. My kid wanted to ski the trees, so I followed him. Mixed bag, but better than I expected. He also wanted to ski a double black down so we skied Gull Canyon. Had soft wintery snow on left side that skied decently for the first third. By half way down, conditions became interesting. He thought the entire run was pretty fun. I was just impressed at what he considered fun.
This is our second year coming over for ski week and we've skied June both Fridays and it is exactly what I would do if we come back again. Even better, is that when we split at 2:45, it took two minutes to pull out of the lot and get on the rode and we were already 30 minutes north.
For sure the ikon pass increases visitors. I bought an MVP pass one spring and skied with it that spring and the net spring. I never got over there in winter that year, and was getting more into touring, and decided not to renew. Only reason I've gone over the past two winters with my family is because of the ikon pass. I actually don't really like to ski AM/Squaw in the winter as I do not like 80, or the crowds there. To us, Mammoth seems way less crowded than Squaw. My wife is a teacher, so we've skied this week at other resorts. We've learned the best places to go were the ones that were not near big cities or airports. Mammoth fits that description, and we skied four days during a holiday week and barely waited in any lines.
If you need sleeper mid week day, buy a KW pass.
I think sleeper pow days are a thing of the past for many reasons beyond the multi pass.
Fun week. And a gorgeous drive north today.
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02-20-2021, 02:02 AM #232Registered User
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Who is the chick ripping around on Enforcers, long brunette ponytail, was out on Thurs end of the day flashing 23 and ch1 face? Local ski racer?
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02-20-2021, 02:09 AM #233
https://www.instagram.com/skiergirljones/?hl=en
Meagan possibly? She's a nordica skier, rips, a little more on the blonde side.
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02-20-2021, 05:58 PM #234
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02-20-2021, 06:10 PM #235
Nice. Great to get out and not have hassle.
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02-21-2021, 04:30 PM #236
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02-21-2021, 04:51 PM #237
Hopefully this works.
It did.
That's just a little video of one of my Paranoids lap on 2-14. It was P1, and it was fun.
Here is one from the next day, 2/15, when it was socked in. This one is Avi 2, with some new snow blowing in from the new storm.
For some reason I can't embed the code the way they want it here.https://www.instagram.com/p/CLmtZODhlHf/Last edited by Long duc dong; 03-21-2021 at 01:15 PM.
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02-21-2021, 05:54 PM #238
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02-21-2021, 06:58 PM #239Johnny Poppinoffastuff
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02-21-2021, 07:17 PM #240
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02-21-2021, 09:14 PM #241
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02-21-2021, 09:18 PM #242
Interesting. I downloaded the mammoth app and it did not show wait times.
Squaw/AM app does show wait times. It seems sort of accurate when we were there.
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02-21-2021, 09:40 PM #243
Yesterday & Today were fab...yesterday was wind buff city: face of 5, Drop Outs (1 & 3), west bowl, ...
Today...springlike..CH9 side corn and basically soft conditions all around.
Lines outside the typical choke points were fine.
Mr/Mrs Comish out crushing it as usual...great seeing u guys.
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CH9
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02-21-2021, 09:56 PM #244
Mammoth 11'053'. Get high not covid 20/21
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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02-21-2021, 09:58 PM #245Registered User
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I treat the times at Squalpine as follows:
0-5min: Good
5-10: Probably to the end of the corrals at alpine but not horrible
10+: Avoid
They're certainly not "accurate" per-say, but better than nothing. Generally consistent for line length vs reported time, even if the time itself is off.
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02-21-2021, 10:01 PM #246
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02-21-2021, 10:24 PM #247Registered User
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02-21-2021, 11:50 PM #248
Rode all week. Not too crowded for ski week once you get off the bottom. I’m missing the stay at home order days . Wednesday was actually busier than Friday this week. The wind machine was in full effect starting Friday. Saturday was June per the usual. It was empty and a blast. Now how about another storm
I got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.....
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02-22-2021, 11:43 AM #249
The Wednesday crowds seemed like it was mostly a result of G2 closing and a bunch of folks suddenly heading to 1,3,5 as a result. It was not too bad before that happened and we just split and played in 12,13,14 until 2pm and then worked our way back.
I lapped chair 5 for 6 runs that day from 3:15 to close. No line at all.
But yeah, Wednesday seemed like the busiest day of the week. Thursday was significantly less crowded.
We are in the Friday at June crew and drive home from there. Left at 2:30 and was home before 9:30. And that included sitting in an In and Out line.
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02-24-2021, 05:37 AM #250
Great day of skiing on Tuesday as snow conditions, crowds, and weather all cooperated for some stellar skiing.
Tuesday started off with a few clouds that were gone by noon, but a strong ENE wind that was 70 mph at 8:30 am kept the Gondola 2 from running until noon.
The superpipe is up and running and I did a few laps thru it. The level of talent in it somedays is intimidating, but today is was empty for the most part.
Up Top the usual suspects again skied well. Lower Drop out.
Climax has a few good lines. Top is definitely not "seamless" and has some wind scour.
Late afternoon Wipeout gets great light this time of year and was fun skiing. Ch 23 had almost zero lines all day.
Under Hangers also had some good turns. It was winter snow up high, spring snow down low.
If you ski the Avi chutes, don't fall. Watched this guy in the red lose a ski way up in Avi 2 and slide down thru the choke and into the small trees below it. Scary. He was unhurt, but shaken. Here is someone bringing his ski to him.
I lapped 22 til closing and skied AVI 2 four or five times. The entrance from the Avi 1 side isn't bad.
Last run of the day, skiers right of Avi 3 bowl was excellent. Back out tomorrow.
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